candyman

Anyone ever check out these Lucyd glasses? They are new, company is trying to make a push. Maybe the time is right? Always seems too early.

https://lucyd.co/

This is a little off topic but related because I keep looking at these source code editor posts. I have always been looking for a little "sidekick" editor that is always in the background that you can invoke with a ctrl-<char> and it at least maintains just a single local data store. (It's not a general purpose text editor like Sublime.) Sort of like the old Notational Velocity but able to be invoked very quickly anytime. The file could just be synced across computers using Dropbox or similar but it would be nice if it also allowed simultaneous editing of the file.

Seems like a great way to learn/practice songs. I'd love to learn a few that I could perform on stage with a band I know. I wonder if anyone has developed an app that could take a recording of my voice and identify the songs where my range is most suited to success. I can really nail some vocals (like Merle Haggard) but fail with many others where I don't have the range/practice.

Seems like a very strange move. The Tesla seems to signal a lane change and abruptly slow down at the same time on a highway with no lights, intersections, turns, or obstacles.

This was precisely the type of driving I figured would be easy to automate - rather than deal with urban settings, pedestrians, bicycles, etc.

I visited LA this year and in fancy neighborhoods you still park on the street but you are not allowed to leave your car in the same spot for more than 72 hours or they ticket and tow. BUT if you are living in your vehicle the rule doesn’t apply. Gotta love those CA regulations!

I also like the "forever bottle" that is common with bourbon lovers like me. You take one of your nicer bottles and when another one is close to empty you don't finish it but instead dump it into a "forever bottle" that keeps evolving with the different leftover bourbons you pour into it.

Seems like less regulation and less government leads to greater efficiency. The rich get richer often because of government loopholes. Carried interest is a simple one but in the 77,000+ pages of the tax code the rich have the resources to use lawyers and accountants to avoid paying taxes. Anyone getting a W2 has very limited wiggle room on avoiding the tax bite.

I never considered that “Blitzscaling” was ever really a thing. Just a another buzzword in the Valley echo chamber.

These guys are legacy.

It’s about time. Google results are so full of promoted and sponsored content that you must use tricks to get past it. Even so most of the best things are no longer findable via Google even if you know what you are searching for!. I’ve been using Kagi for a few weeks now and really like the results. I signed up for a paid account to support their progress.

Nothing really there.

I think they also pivoted from doing individual cards to just corporate. I had a Brex account and card and they ended up closing all that off. I never got around to using it. I did find Mercury Bank to be pretty good for a business account FWIW.

How is it anonymous if it asks for your email?

We used Eiffel to build a funds transfer system way back when, Maybe 1990 or so. I met Bertrand a couple of times because my mentor was a huge fan. He built systems in banking using Modula-2 before Eiffel came along. Last I saw Bertrand he was in Santa Barbara. It feels like disciplined programming is not popular anymore in favor hacking, continuous releases, agile, scrum, etc.

I'd probably be considered old too but all these point services add up to a lot of complexity IMO. I've been running on WordPress for about 10 years and it got unworkable because everything requires a plugin. I finally got off and vented my reasons and delight with an "all in one" platform like Ghost. YMMV of course and we still use things like Zapier but still!

https://ipocandy.substack.com/p/free-at-last-free-at-last

Amazon has a terrible track record in healthcare - with both internal efforts and acquisitions. I figured they had given up but this acquisition suggests otherwise. I think the business is just too different from what they know for them to really commit to it and be successful. It's a nice rescue for $ONEM stock holders!!!

Stripe documentation. Joy of cooking.

Given how precious and valuable time is I don't really get the aversion to using Microsoft or something similar. Pricing has come down so much that it's less than people spend on coffee. If you are working on something worthwhile it doesn't seem worth the effort to avoid using mainstream, productive and cheaply available commercial software.

It feels like there should be a more direct way to grow stuff. AppHarvest is doing something interesting. Why plant in dirt outside and rely on lossy transmission of fertilizer and water to the plant? Plus fungus, parasites, etc. A controlled environment where you can get the nutrients and water directly to the plant seems a lot more efficient. I know the capex is huge but still. We probably should all be eating less (and wasting less) food here in the US.

It might be hard to love Logitech as a brand but I've been satisfied with a number of their products and keyboards and mice are important to me. I'm typing for hours a day so it matters. I'm getting older and arthritis sucks so a good mouse helps some. (Although the roller keyboard thing is cool and I'm playing with it some.) Logitech is making it a little weird with the different wireless dongles. For example the MX Master 3 Business mouse uses Bolt but the MX Master 3 uses the older one. And now the Logitech "options" software has the regular and the "beta" which seems to be more for Bolt. I'm not going to buy this keyboard for now since I have plenty. (My most recent was a Drop that was really fun to customize and put together. I can't use it as a "daily driver" because I rely on the extra numeric keypad for work but it's my "convertible" for sunny days!

Funny we were just at the supermarket and this was going on. I used my Amex and it went through fine. Lines everywhere, people rushing to the single ATM in the area. What's in your wallet? ;-)

It’s like the last three years all my instruments said “tilt” and none of my traditional financial analysis tools were worth a damn. Now I am getting readings and things are working again. Hope it stays this way. I expect we may overshoot on the downside but that’s typical.

I hope it’s finally over. For a while the market was driven by factors that I can’t analyze or understand using my traditional financial frameworks. It’s now back to a point where my tools work again. It’s like all my instruments just read “Tilt” for the last three years. Now I get readings!

I don't know who did it but someone killed CNN a long time ago when they started "reporting" on what was trending on Twitter. I remember the day many years ago and thinking "what the hell are they doing and why would someone sign off on that?" A single person on YouTube could just do this - no need for an organization like CNN. All such "news" sites are dead to me!

Investing has been 24/7 for a long time for professional investors who traded markets globally - New York, Hong Kong, London, etc. And crypto investors have been doing it with BTC and the rest for a long time too. And futures markets too are popular with institutions.

Extended hours have been creeping earlier and later around the core market hours of 9:30am to 4pm but volumes are typically very low and price discovery remains suspect. Most serious investors look to trade around 10 or 10:30 and then again in the afternoon when liquidity is best and price discovery is more reliable.

More trading is actually bad for most people who should be "investing" and not trying to make a quick buck with call options. I wish Robin Hood would start helping people mature into lifelong investors instead.

I see how hopeless downtown Louisville is. On some days and weekends it can be okay but the issue is that nobody lives there so it's mostly empty unless people drive in, which is sporadic.

We built a huge park on the river downtown that is pretty much empty. They are completing another $30M section of it closer to downtown. Also empty. These are beautiful spaces but there are no people living around them to walk to them and enjoy them.

We have the walking bridge over to New Albany which is also wonderful and gets some traffic on the weekend. At least the Indiana side has people living there along with bars and restaurants. There's very little on the Kentucky side.

We lived downtown pre-COVID and loved it. But after everything closed we moved out. I think there could be a way to revitalize it but there would need to be a plan and I've never seen or heard about one.

The soccer stadium is excellent and a draw when games are in town. But when they are not its tumbleweeds.

Time to go back and re-read some Chris Alexander.

Reminds me of Channel Advisor which was a public company $ECOM. I wonder what happened to them? I think they were basically giving you the ability to sell on AMZN, EBAY and some others. I wonder how many competitors there are.

Man that's ugly.

I find it disturbing that somehow the whatever the internet is seems to consolidate to central provider because they have such advantages due to scale. Is that how everything goes? Seems weird.

Nothing matters unless and until it scales. There are scores of these little examples of doing this sort of thing in a lab.